BackC&P: Augmenting Copy and Paste Operations on Mobile Touch Devices Through Back-of-device Interaction

As more and more complex applications, e.g. photo editing software and slideshow editing software, can be used on mobile touch devices, some simple operations, such as copying and pasting, are used more frequently by ordinary mobile users. However, the existing touch techniques are far from perfectly supporting these simple operations on mobile devices. In this paper, a new interactive technique BackC&P, which takes advantage of back-of-device touch input to augment copy and paste operations on mobile devices, is presented. The results of a user study that evaluated the usability of BackC&P are also presented. The findings indicate that BackC&P was about twice as fast as the currently used technique on mobile touch devices when used to complete the copy-and-paste tasks, with no significant decrease in accuracy.

@article{Chen2024,
  title     = {BackC&P: Augmenting Copy and Paste Operations on Mobile Touch Devices Through Back-of-device Interaction},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {15},
  number    = {11},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Liang Chen},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2024.0151193},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2024.0151193}
}